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Fire over water
By Mathew T. George
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| March comes like a lion and goes out like a lamb, they say. On March 12, 1930, Mahatma Gandhi set off on a 24-day march to Dandi, where he scooped up a handful of salt and kindled a revolution. Three years before that, on March 20, 1927, Bhimrao Ambedkar started a fire by drinking a handful of water from Chavdar Tale in Mahad, in Maharashtra's Raigad district. Chavdar means tasty in Marathi,... |
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Hidden identity 26 April, 2013
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 Gurgaon is known by two identities. On the one hand, it is a millennium city, with its skyscrapers of chrome and glass. On the other, it is the land of lath (stick) and khap, an outback where honour killings, rapes and murders happen with regularity. Gurgaon, however, is not the sum total of these two identities. Like every ancient Indian place, it has layers, a unique culture and surprises,...
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Passionate about dates 16 April, 2013
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 Dates are a passion for Jagrat Chatterji, 33, of Lucknow. Sitting in a small dingy room, Chatterji unfolds his unique calendar and lists historic days and dates with ease: May 10, 1857, the day on which the first war of India’s Independence broke out, was a Saturday; August 15, 1947 was a Friday; January 26, 1950 was a Thursday; June 25, 1983, the day India won the cricket World Cup, was a...
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Pincode
The horrific killings of Congress leaders by armed Maoist guerillas that took place at Jiram Ghati in Chhattisgarh on May 25 have drawn the world's attention. The latest victim was Vidya Charan Shukla, who succumbed ... 
It is only a walk across the road from Sanchar Bhawan, which houses the telecom ministry, to Sardar Patel Bhawan for just-retired telecom secretary Rentala Chandrasekhar, who has been appointed as chief of the super-secretive ... 